Well-bucket rope-holder



(No Model.)

15'; TOOMEY.

WLL BUGKET ROPB'HOLDBR.

No. 430.409. Patented June 17, 1890.

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WITNESSES ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT iiricn.

FREDERICK TOOMEY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

WELLBUCKET ROPE-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 430,409, dated June 1'7, 1890.

Application filed February 4, 1890. Serial No. 339,187. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK TooMEY, a

,citizen of the United States, residing at Balti- Figure 1 is a side View of my invcntiou asv applied to a rope and two buckets in a well. Fig'. 2 is a top view of the rope-holder. .Fig'` 3 is a sectional side view of the same.

The letterA designates the supporting-frame, of any suitable construction, and B the wellcnrb. At a sufficient height of the supportimg-frame A is a cross-piece c, to which is attached the rope-holder D. This holder consists of a plate having a slot e nearly its entire length, and at each end a rope-hole f, which is separated from the central slot by a bridge-piece g. A pawl or gripper h has one end secured in the central slot at a point midwaybetween its ends by a piyot-bolt i. Its free end has a serrated head h' to press against the rope. This pawl may be turned 011 its pivot so as to present its head h' in either direction, and when in action this head will be in contact with that portion of the rope K which is movin g' upward, as shown by the dart.

Two buckets P are used, one being secu red to each end of the rope K, the latter passing over a wheel Q, secured at the top of the frame A.

The serrated end h' of the pawl h should be placed against the ascending part` of the well-rope. If, 'for any reason, the person raising the filled bucket should let go the rope, the pawl h would grip or squeeze the rope against the end of the holder-plate, and there;

by would pl'event the filled bucket 'from descending. Then the opposite bucket is let down and filled, the pawl is then thrown over to engage with the rope at the 'Other end of FREDERICK TOOMEY. Witncsses:

JOHN E. MoRRIs, JNo. T. MADDOX. 

